CHIUW: Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop

Friday, May 23rd, 2014

Advance Program

CHIUW—the Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop, to be
held in conjunction with IPDPS
2014—will be the first in what is anticipated to be an
annual series of workshops designed to bring developers and users of
the Chapel language (https://chapel-lang.org) together to
report on work being done with the language across the broad
open-source community. Attendance is open to anyone interested in
Chapel, from the most seasoned Chapel user or developer to someone
simply curious to learn more.

Abstract: MADNESS is a general-purpose numerical
environment that sits upon a scalable runtime that consciously
includes elements "borrowed" from other projects including Charm++
and the HPCS programming languages, including Chapel; it is also
designed to be interoperable with "legacy" code. But as I have
said to Chapel's architects several times, maintaining our own
runtime is just an unpleasant transitional phase and we are
looking for a permanent home—is that home Chapel? I'll give you
some flavor of what MADNESS does and how, with the objective of
starting a conversation and seeding collaborations.

Bio: Professor Robert Harrison is a
distinguished expert in high-performance computing and is the
Endowed Chair and Director of the newly formed, $20M-endowed
Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook
University. Through a joint appointment with Brookhaven National
Laboratory (BNL), Professor Harrison has also been named Director
of the Computational Science Center at BNL. Dr. Harrison comes to
Stony Brook from the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, where he was Director of the Joint Institute
of Computational Science, Professor of Chemistry and Corporate
Fellow. He has a prolific career in high-performance computing
with over one hundred publications on the subject, as well as
extensive service on national advisory committees.

The concluding session will be an open discussion
between some featured panelists and members of the
community/audience about Chapel's future and priorities going
forward, or anything else of interest to those in
attendance.